Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-04-08
EVENTS OF TIL WEEK.
Domestic Ncws

EVENTS FaTHE WEEK.
Domestic Ncws
The Grant monument fund now amounts
to s12O,84O.
The Bell Telephone company cleared
$2,0OO,0OO, last year.
Dry goods imports for the week at the
port Of New York amounted to 81, 3s0.077.
Acold snap is reported from Danville,
Va, and it is feared fruit has been injured
A number Of laborers on a New York
building struck because two non-union men
were employed.
The steamer Eagle has been lost on Buena
Vista bay, Newfoundland, with 270 men on
board, all of whom persisted.
On Monday 40 0 emigrants were started
Westfrom New York being the accumula-
ton Of arrivals since Friday. !.
A movement is on foot in Chicago, headed
by the carpenters. to establish eight hours
a days work and IS cents an hour.
Since March l Chicago packers have
slaughtered 213, 900 hogs, against 226, 900 for
the corresponding period a>year ago.
The Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
legislatures have adopted resolutions strong
~ c~ondemning the Irish coercion bill.
Herr Most was released from Blackwell's
Island, New York April l, and as soon as he
landed took refuge with friends in a beer
saloon. "
Cattle on the ranges of New Mexico,
1ndinn Territory and Colorado have come
through the winter in excellent shape and
with but slight losses.
The New York court of appeals has
affirmed the judgment of the general term
convicting a party selling oleomargarine
in violation of the statute.
At st. Joseph's convent, Hannibal, No.,
Eddie Burnes, aged IL years, accidentally
aged 10 years, by shooting.
The United States district courts of west
ern Pennsylvania have suspended operation
until the October term, because of the fail
ure of congress to pass the deficiency bill.
A special to the Boston, Mass, Journal,
on the S0th, from st. Johns, N. F., says the
steamer Eagle, from the sealing grounds, is
reported lost, with 200 men. No particulars
have been received.
Gov. Hill of New York, sent "a message to
the legislature on special legislation. It is
aimed at the high license bill passed for
New York n Brooklyn. Hill will veto the
bill if the senate passes it.
The Stone Cutters Association of Gin
cinnati. Covington and Newport, has de-
cided to close business until a settlement
can be made as to wages. About 700 work
men are thus deprived OF work.
On the 4th, two freight trains were badly
wrecked in a collision at Bolivar, Pa, on
the Pennsylvania railroad. Two cars of
cotton caught fire and were entirely con-
sumed. The loss will be very heavy.
A special from Ackworth, Ca, states that
a terrible hailstorm, accompanied with
wind, struck that place at 8 O'Clock Monday
night Two dwellings were demolished and
the occupants had a narrow escape from
death.
The number of cases received at the pen
sion Office during the week ending March
Is were 4, 9O2. OF these, 1908 were on &C.
count of the Mexican war. Certificates
issued, 2,2l7; number Of cases pending,
1901, 779. "
The Connecticut senate; by a vote of 20 to
3,ipassed the 10 hour law for women and
children already passed by the house. It is
the same as the Massachusetts, law. An
amendment excepting mercantile establish
ments was rejected-13 to S.
It is estimated at the Treasury depart
ment that there was a decrease of about
$12,G eco, 900 in the public debt during March.
The receipts up to the 30th, amount to $780,
2335,2293, and expenditures to SIS, $685. $50, in
Guiding S6,435 2l9 pension payments. The
net gain of receipts over expenditures is
$14,S66, 743.
Joseph Sommers fell from the steps of his
lodging house in Brooklyn, N. Y, last
October and dislocated his neck. He died
at a Brooklyn hospital on the Goth, having
lived five months with a broken neck. He
was completely paralyzed. The surgeons
attempted to set his neck. He seemed to
improve, became conscious and hoped for
recovery.
Commissioner Sparks has instructed
Special Agent Downey, in Montana, that
there must be 10 interference with settlers
IL taking from pub'iclands wood and timber
necessary for their family and settlement
uses. but special agents are expected to de-
vote their time and energies to the proven
ton of timber depredations upon a large
scale by corporations.
Massachusetts has a Sunday barber-shop
law, similar to that of Minnesota, and at
Boston in the 'Lord's day. violation case
against W. Hogarty, who was on trial for
keeping his barber shop open on Sunday,
the jury in the superior court rendered a
verdict against Hogarty, deciding that
shaving on Sunday was not a work of
necessity or charity. The case will be
taken to the supreme court on exceptions.
The light house board has completed
plans for lighting the Bartholdi Statue of
Liberty on Bedloe's island. A strong lens
will be placed in the torch, five additional
electric, lights will be placed around the
base. making 10 of such lights in all, and a
number Of incandescent lights will be
placed in the interior of the statue. The
light to be placed in the torch will be one
OF the most powerful fixed lights in the
world. - a
Quarantine was instituted at Ell Paso,
Texas, on the LIST, against, cholera. The
State has been under spaper' quarantine
SINCE Fob. Z, but the proclamation has not
heretofore oeen enforced at that point. The